Word: excels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academics, that always kills spiritual values. All those schools like Yale and Harvard started out as Christian schools, but then they got concerned with quality." Tuition can be as low as $225, as high as $2,500 per year. But whatever they cost, the schools do seem to excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights...
...Total education is the thing I hope students are looking at." John P. Reardon '60, director of athletics, said, arguing that if Harvard squads seek national acclaim, "it's not going to work out very well for us." If squads excel within their own leagues. Reardon said, they can gain national publicity without having to compete directly against collegiate powerhouses...
Bernstein, however, feels that the varsity letter just complements the letter grades she's received so far. "The really great think is that Harvard softball is no longer taken as a joke. Even as a club-sport we were out there to play and excel, as ourselves, as athletes; but most important as a team. We did that; all the varsity status does is propel our position to another level...
...belief in Fish's ability to take a player and, through racquet work, allow him to excel further than would be possible elsewhere is also echoed down the line of both squads...
...base, leftfielder Paul Scheper made a sliding, one handed catch of a sinking liner. "I always hold up the ball real quick, just like the pros," Scheper said after the game...Everybody got into the hit parade except for Wark, the number-nine hitter. Freshman Bruce Weller continued to excel in the leadoff spot, rapping out two hits in five at bats. At Soldiers Field COLUMBIA (3) AB R H BI DiChiaro, ss 4 0 1 0 Larkin, 3b 3 0 1 0 Goryeb, 1b 4 0 0 0 Hanewich, c 4 1 1 0 Witkowski...